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Week 12
The Issue of Loving (the brethren)
(ESV)
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
8 At the same time,
it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
As we saw last week, John boldly stated that
the REAL PROOF of whether a person is
a Christian or not is in that person’s life…
The Christian is NOT someone
who just says
he or she is a Christian…
The Christian isn’t someone
who just goes
to church on the weekends…
The Christian isn’t someone
who occasionally does a good deed or two
out of feeling guilty…
Instead,
the Christian is a person who has accepted the Gospel
of Jesus Christ,
and has put his or her trust in Jesus Christ,
and at times he same time recognizes
his or her sinful condition
and repents of
his or her sin,
and now LIVES
his or her life
with Christ and the Word of God
in the center of his or her life…
So the Christian therefore
does not just follow the letter of the law
but rather keeps the commands of the Lord
in spirit as well as
in action.
Logically then...
if there were more
true Christians
living in America,
there would be a lot less reason
for people
without Jesus
to be calling Christians
Things like
hypocrites,
or mean spirited,
or gossips,
other things.
So John wrote in order for instructing
Christians...
the church,
which tells me there were issues back then among those
who called themselves Christians,
so it is for instructing the church that John said back in verse 5,
“5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.
By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”
“5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.
By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”
This tells us that
Our lives are supposed to LOOK MORE like the life Jesus lived
because He is in us,
and then because we are following Jesus
we also are supposed to be letting
His Living Word guide our lives as well.
This was why John described this as the Christian
“walking in the same way as Christ walked.”
The Christian LIVES out who he or she is…
not just doing ‘Christian looking stuff.’
This is a visible lifestyle…
and it’s why other people can see the difference in
Christian men and women
versus even ‘good people’ in the world.
Now, John moves to another great teaching doctrine of the
New Testament
which is another of the VISIBLE things,
John now addresses “the love for the brethren”…
John is speaking about
OUR love FOR other Christians...
Christians in our church...
Christians all over the world.
Once again,
instead of trying to ‘broaden’
what John is saying
In order to cover something it does not say…
and here we must remember rules of biblical interpretation...
In this case who is John writing to?
remember,
John is not addressing this to the general population…
But specifically he is speaking to and dealing with the brothers and sisters in Christ…
These are people People who are
part of the family of God…
These are people
who have been adopted into God’s family because
they have trusted in Jesus Christ.
So with that listen To
verse 7, John says,
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